The mission of this blog is to promote the proposition that you and I should dedicate ourselves to building a culture of peace by affirming that humanism will triumph the theologies of despair and the ideologies of violence: a commitment to eliminate war and all other forms of violence.

A new survey highlights a threat to American democracy: “If a presidential election were held today, President Trump’s approval ratings suggest he would be in deep trouble. The good news for Trump is he doesn’t have to face voters again until 2020 (though the fate of his Republican allies in 2018 is a different question). But what if he didn’t have to face the voters then, either?”

Donald Trump promised a revolutionary change from politics as usual. As many predicted, his administration has been a disaster.But it appears that a once obliging Republican Congress is now ignoring Trump and willing to take its membership in a different direction.

Trump’s transgender ban is unenforceable as presented in his tweet. As a result, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said there will be no changes to the military’s transgender policy. But what are the reasons for Trump’s snap decision to ban transgender troops?